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High Point University was awarded 12 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is educational administration.
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High Point is ranked #593 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when High Point held the #865 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
High Point also holds the #20 spot on the Best Colleges in North Carolina ranking.
When it comes to admittance, High Point University is somewhat selective. Its acceptance rate is 79%, which means you'll face some strong competition during the admissions process. Do what you can to make your application stand out.
About 25% of students accepted to High Point submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 563 and 640. Math scores were between 540 and 640.
The student to faculty ratio at High Point University is about average at 17 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at High Point University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 83% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like High Point University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At High Point the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 65%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,628 undergraduates at High Point with 4,575 being full-time and 53 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $31,039 | $31,383 | $32,672 | $36,489 | $40,265 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of High Point, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At High Point, approximately 46% of students took out student loans averaging $12,079 a year. That adds up to $48,316 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for High Point are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One University Parkway, High Point, NC 27268 |
| Phone: | 336-841-9000 |
| Website: | www.highpoint.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Communication & Journalism (Other) | 316 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 186 | NA |
| Health & Physical Education | 99 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 90 | NA |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 87 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 83 | NA |
| General Psychology | 73 | NA |
| General Biology | 63 | NA |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 63 | NA |
| Design & Applied Arts | 62 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 329 students took at least one online class at High Point University. This is an increase from the 119 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 329 | 226 |
| 2021-2022 | 119 | 89 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,880 | 255 |
| 2018-2019 | 73 | 0 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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